Romance Languages and Linguistic Theory 2006 -- Editorial page -- Title page -- LCC data -- FOREWORD -- CONTENTS -- UNPRONOUNCED MUCH AND THE DISTRIBUTION OF DEGREE EXPRESSIONS IN SPANISH -- 1. Deg-heads and Q heads in Spanish -- 2. Two series of degree expressions in Spanish -- 3. So-pronominalization and Much-support -- 4. Two accounts of the distribution of Deg-heads and Q-heads -- 5. Unpronounced MUCH and the distribution of degree expressions in Spanish -- 6. Unpronounced MUCH and degree adverbials in English -- 7. Conclusion -- References -- THE STATUS OF THE (SUPPOSED) EXPLETIVE IN BRAZILIAN PORTUGUESE EXISTENTIAL CLAUSES -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Arguments against você as an expletive -- 3. Theoretical pressupositions -- 4. Pieces of evidence -- 5. Possibly false expletives in other languages -- 6. Conclusion -- References -- ON THE LINEARIZATION OF ADJECTIVES IN ROMANIAN -- 1. Introduction -- 2. The classification of adjectives - A proposal -- 3. Relative and intentional adjectives are kind-level -- 4. The syntax of an adjective entirely follows from its and denotation -- 5. On nominal peripheries -- 6. The n*- versus the d*-periphery -- 7. The isomorphic structure of the two peripheries -- P-features -- 8. Conclusions -- References -- PREPOSITIONLESS GENITIVE AND N+N COMPOUNDING IN (OLD) FRENCH AND ITALIAN -- 1. N+N compounding between syntax and morphology -- 2. Two classes of N+N compounds -- 3. Juxtaposition genitive in Old French and Occitan -- 4. Juxtaposition genitive in Old Italian and in Modern Italian dialects -- 5. Some remarks on genitive compounds in Frisian -- 6. Conclusions -- References -- Sources -- VOWEL ELISION IN SPOKEN ITALIAN -- 1. Introduction -- 2. The function words under analysis -- 3. Data and methods -- 4. Results -- 5. Discussion -- 6. An Optimal Theoretic analysis of Italian vowel elision -- 7. Conclusions.

References -- ACOUSTIC CORRELATES OF PHONOLOGICAL MICROVARIATIONS -- 1. The stressed phonological system of Salento -- 2. Our research in Southern Salento: aims, methods and acoustic analysis -- 3. The stressed vowels of Southern Salento and their internal processes -- 4. A possible phonological analysis of the micro-parametric variation -- 5. An attempt to incorporate phonetics in phonological analysis -- 6. Conclusions -- References -- ROMANCE LENITION -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Romance Lenition: Diachronic and synchronic facts -- 3. Previous analyses -- 4. Lenition and Comparative Markedness -- 5. Summary -- References -- MAIN STRESS IN ITALIAN NONCE NOUNS -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Method -- 3. Results -- 4. Analysis -- 5. Conclusion -- References -- NEGATIVE CONCORD AS FEATURE SHARING -- 1. Introduction -- 2. NCIs in Hungarian -- 3. Proposal -- 4. Conclusion -- References -- APPOSITIVE SENTENCES AND THE STRUCTURE(S) OF COORDINATION -- 1. Appositive vs. non-appositive sentences -- 2. Syntactic representations of coordination -- 3. The Set-Merge approach to coordination and the c-command effects -- 4. Pair-Merge and syntactic structure of appositive coordination -- 5. Appositives as parenthetical adjuncts and the blocking of c-command -- 6. Concluding remarks -- References -- CLEAVING THE INTERACTIONS BETWEEN SLUICING AND P-STRANDING -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Sluicing with P-stranding in Spanish and BP -- 3. The proposal -- 4. Support for the analysis -- 5. Refining aspects of the analysis: Empty-Headed and Free Relatives -- 6. Conclusion -- References -- Acknowledgements -- Appendix: French Data -- ANOTHER LOOK AT WH-Q UESTIONS IN ROMANCE -- Introduction -- 1. A Reminder: Wh-Configurations of the Illasi Type(Poletto & Pollock 2004b) -- 2. Mendrisiotto -- 3. Analysing the Various Wh-Paradigms of Mendrisiotto -- 4. In situ Wh-Questions in French.

5. On 'Ce que' questions, 'Can't Find the Value' Questions, Expanded Interrogative Pronouns and Related Topics in French Interrogative Syntax -- 6. Concluding remarks -- References -- INDEX OF SUBJECTS & TERMS -- The series CURRENT ISSUES IN LINGUISTIC THEORY.